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My Family Recipes-Special Series

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Palada...a Diwali sweet

I hope everyone would have enjoyed the festival to the fullest extent with wonderful feast and bursting crackers.The whole blogging world is full of Diwali celebrations showcasing the sweets and savories prepared especially for the festival.As my cousin was visiting me last week mom has sent some sweets and savories with him for the festival,so I did not feel like preparing anything else even though I had some plans after seeing those delicacies getting posted by our fellow bloggers.On the festival day I did pooja and offered palada,pulihora,lobia sundal and lobia fritters to the god as prashad and in the evening I have lit the diya's and burst some crackers in the balcony. During my last trip to Bangalore I had visited one of the MTR's outlets and while on the loot of MTR products this Rice ada packet caught my attention and thanks to my blogging world which has already given me enough knowledge about new things,so immediately I added that packet of rice ada to my shopping cart.I have just followed the instructions given behind the packet and modified the recipe little bit according to our taste.I added condensed milk to it as I like the richness that gives to the sweets.I liked the chewy texture of the ada which s quite different and simple from the other kheer's.And here comes my version of this recipe..Ingredients:

Boil 1 cup of water in a kadai and add rice ada and mix and let it cook for 8-10 mins until the rice ada is soft and done.

Add hot milk to the cooked ada and simmer the flame and let it cook until the milk is reduced to 3/4 th level by stirring it in between.

Now add condensed milk and sugar to it and boil for 2-3 mins.

Add saffron soaked milk to it and let it cook on low flame for 5-6 mins.

Heat ghee in a small tadka pan and fry chopped cashewnuts and badam in it for 1-2 mins and then add raisins and fry it until they rise.

Add the fried dry fruits and elaichi powder to the cooked kheer and give a stir.

Pour it in a bowl and decorate with slivered pistachios and almonds

Serve it hot or chilled.

and you guessed right..my next recipe will be pulihora and sundal...:)

and now comes the Award time.

Renu has passed me "Kreative blogger" award to me.Thanks a lot Renu for thinking of me and passing that award.Thanks a lot dear.Updated in my side bar.

Priya has passed me "Presentation" award to me.Thanks a lot priya for thinking of my blog and passing that award.Vidhas has passed me "A Giant Bear Hug" award to me.Thanks a lot Vidhas for thinking of my blog and passing that award.Updated in my side bar.

Sushma , PJ,Shubha have passed on an award and a tag for me.Thanks a lot girls for thinking of me and passing that lovely award to me dear.

This award goes with a fun meme which has to be passed on to 6 of your favourite blogs and which has to be answered with only one word.Here is the meme part:

31. Last time you cried: might be yesterday watching some soaps in tv..:)

32. Your best friends: R,S,S,P

33.One place that I go over and over: the grocery store

34. One person who emails me regularly: all the blogger friends

35. Favorite place to eat: too many places in bangalore and bombay

I would love to pass it on to all my Blogger friends who did not recieve these awards as it is very difficult to choose as I love reading and visiting every one's blog. So please accept this Award and pass it on to ur friends.

By seeing the pictures i can say you had yummy festival time.....love that creamy and yum looking palada....new to me...but love to try it...lobia sundal sounds yummy too....waiting for those recipes....